Pirahna’s blog

For some plans connected to Smacketeria but for some personal ones too, i need to play with movies.

Since i was born, i liked small and fast things, may it be games, software or just a picture that loads up fast.
At websites i still like them to load in less then 4 seconds, and sadly most sites fail to do this.

For video for web i like things to move fast, or at least i want to.
But on youtube i usually have to pause at the beginning and wait 30 seconds for it to load some content so i can see it in one piece.
On the rest i won’t say anything because they’re pathetic.

I’m obsessed with optimizations … if i need to cut off some blank lines to buy an extra kilobyte, i will. I do the same thing with flv movies.

I rendered a 61 minute avi, with a pool game (640x480) and background music (from winamp). After i saved it as a compressed avi it reached 800 megabytes. Good.
From there i compressed it to flv and it’s sizes dropped 4 times, reaching 200 megabytes (with good quality).

I played around with ffmpeg, flvtool2, riva encoder, sorenson squeeze and whatever i had around here to encode and compress, but they all failed me. So i took mencoder from my server and put it to work, and it looks like it did a pretty good job.
I managed to bring the flv file to 57 megabytes, but with a lower resolution.

So i’m ready to optimize the movies for Smacky.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

For some time Piry is thinking about this thing, but rarely said it …
This is one of those rare moments.

I keep looking at the people around me and I see that the left eyebrow has little pieces of hair that stick up, hairs close to the center of the face. At girls i see it more rarely because they tweeze a lot, but they’re also noticeable.

Wonder why.

At the right eyebrow all the hairs stay “down” … why only on the left can we see hairs sticking up ?
I think this is an issue on which only the mighty Alex Chiu can reply.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

Again i’m trying to find a more effective and friendly method to organize myself.

Let’s see how long this lasts :

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

And so you can ping using php …

$ip = "10.10.10.10"; //ip address here
echo "<pre>";
system ("ping -w 10 -c 5 $ip");
echo "</pre>";

To secure the whole thing a little, verify that the ip address is correct, then use escapeshellarg() or escapeshellcmd().

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)